In this article, we take a look at which Premier League fixtures are live on Amazon Prime, Sky Sports and TNT Sports this week.
The Premier League continues with the title race heating up as we approach March. Manchester City travel to Bournemouth and Arsenal host Newcastle on Saturday as they each seek to gain an advantage over Liverpool.
The Reds are involved in the Carabao Cup final this weekend, which means they could either be overtaken or sit in front of the pack with a game in hand by next week.
So with plenty at stake, it is time to find out which games the broadcasters will be showing live in the UK at the weekend for the next few months…
PREMIER LEAGUE TV SCHEDULE
Saturday 24th February 2024
17:30
AFC Bournemouth v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
20:00
Arsenal v Newcastle United
Premier League
TNT Sports 1TNT Sports Ultimate
Sunday 25th February 2024
13:30
Wolves v Sheffield United
Premier League
Sky Sports Premier League
Monday 26th February 2024
20:00
West Ham United v Brentford
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 2nd March 2024
17:30
Luton Town v Aston Villa
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 3rd March 2024
13:00
Burnley v AFC Bournemouth
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
15:30
Manchester City v Manchester United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 4th March 2024
20:00
Sheffield United v Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 9th March 2024
12:30
Manchester United v Everton
Premier League
TNT Sports 1TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Arsenal v Brentford
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 10th March 2024
13:00
Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
15:45
Liverpool v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Monday 11th March 2024
20:00
Chelsea v Newcastle United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 16th March 2024
12:30
Arsenal v Chelsea
Premier League
TNT Sports 1TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 17th March 2024
14:00
Everton v Liverpool
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Saturday 30th March 2024
12:30
Newcastle United v West Ham United
Premier League
TNT Sports 1TNT Sports Ultimate
17:30
Aston Villa v Wolves
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
20:00
Brentford v Manchester United
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Sunday 31st March 2024
14:00
Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
16:30
Manchester City v Arsenal
Premier League
Sky Sports Main EventSky Sports Premier LeagueSky Sports Ultra HDR
Sky Sports Premier League and Football channels are priced £18 per month combined, or viewers can pick up the complete sports package from just £25 per month.
NOW is essentially Sky Sports without a contract. Fans can pay for a day membership (£9.99) or month membership (£33.99).
Sport for £12 a month plan, sees viewers pick up to four TNT Sports channels. The Premier League, UEFA Champions League and Premiership rugby are also included along with Eurosport. However there is a time limit on this price.
If you already have BT broadband? You can add TNT Sports on Discovery+ for £20 extra each month and with no contract tie-in.
TNT Big Sport package from £35 a month – sees 4 TNT Sports channels, 11 Sky Sports, Premier League and Eurosport.
TNT VIP from £65 a month – has Sky Atlantic and NOW Entertainment, NOW Cinema, four TNT sports channels, Eurosport, 11 Sky channels, TNT Sports HD and a basic Netflix plan.
Viewers have a 18-month contract and have until August 17th, 2023 to buy it before the price rises to £18 a month.
Amazon Prime Video boasted two rounds of games prior to Christmas. Viewers were allowed to advantage of a 30-day free trial, which included free next-day delivery across the Amazon store.
Why is there a Saturday football blackout in the UK for live streams and TV broadcasts?
Since before the formation of the Premier League, Saturday 3pm kick offs have been forbidden to be televised in the UK, with broadcasters only allowed to show early and late matches on national TV.
Though the 3pm kick off is the slot in which the majority of weekend matches are played with a number of games happening at the same time, they are never broadcast live on television due to the ‘football blackout’.
The United Kingdom is the only place to prohibit the broadcast of 3pm Saturday kick offs.
The 3pm blackout is said to be tradition, with Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday – the go to show where a panel of pundits report in-game action to viewers with none of the match footage actually being showed.
This is also why ratings for Match of the Day remain ever-popular, though numbers are made tougher to achieve due to online streams, footage of goals appearing within seconds online and highlights uploaded to Sky Sports’ YouTube just after 5pm Saturdays.
Major European leagues in France, Spain, Germany and Italy don’t observe such a blackout, and there has been sufficient evidence to prove that closed periods do not affect the outcome of lower league football match attendance.
If anything, you’re more likely to watch more Premier League games if your based in North America or Asia rather than your own country (UK), despite the England priding themselves as a nation who are the home of football.
In February 2011, Advocate General Kokott of the European Court of Justice launched an investigation into the “closed periods” and concluded that they did not affect match attendance at lower league games.
“It is, in fact, doubtful whether closed periods are capable of encouraging attendance at matches and participation in matches,” she said in a statement .
“Both activities have a completely different quality to the following of a live transmission on television. It has not been adequately shown to the Court that the closed periods actually encourage attendance at and participation in matches.
“No closed periods were adopted in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, or in Northern Ireland, that is to say, within the sphere of influence of English football.”
In 2016, Ofcom launched an investigation into the rights of televised football and surveyed football fans about whether they wanted to see a change.
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